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2021) Bo Schembechler, American football player and coach (d. 2006) April 2. Ed Dorn, poet (d. 1999) Frank Farrar, governor of South Dakota (d. 2021) April 4. William F. Clinger Jr., politician (d. 2021) John Dee Holeman, Piedmont Blues musician (d. 2021) April 5 – Richard Jenrette, businessman (d. 2018) April 8 – Morton B. Panish, physical ...
In October 1929, he developed his ideas further. [468] On 16 January 1930, Whittle submitted his first patent (granted in 1932). [469] 1928: Philo Farnsworth demonstrates the first practical electronic television to the press. 1929: The ball screw is invented by Rudolph G. Boehm.
1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1929th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 929th year of the 2nd millennium, the 29th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1920s decade.
Warner ended the decade by unveiling On with the Show in 1929, the first all-color, all-talking feature film. Cartoon shorts were popular in movie theaters during this time. In the late 1920s, Walt Disney emerged. Mickey Mouse made his debut in Steamboat Willie on November 18, 1928, at the Colony Theater in New York City.
January 30 – Isamu Akasaki (died 2021), Japanese electronics engineer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. January 31 – Rudolf Mössbauer (died 2011), German winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. April 5 – Ivar Giaever, Norwegian winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. April 8 – Morton B. Panish, American physical chemist.
But it was not until 1929 that Earle Haas of Denver first invented the modern tampon with an applicator. Dr. Haas submitted the design for patent in 1931, and in 1936, the tampon was first sold in the United States. He later gave his invention the brandname Tampax, which is still one of the main tampon brands today. [225] [226] 1929 Eyelash curler
Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother, an iconic image of the Great Depression in the United States. 1930 – The Great Depression in the United States continues to worsen, reaching a nadir in early 1933.
After the Wall Street Crash of 1929, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped from 381 to 198 over the course of two months, optimism persisted for some time. The stock market rose in early 1930, with the Dow returning to 294 (pre-depression levels) in April 1930, before steadily declining for years, to a low of 41 in 1932.